Rescuers on Sunday said that they have detected a signal from the Boeing passenger plane that crashed near Indonesia’s capital a day earlier, reported AFP.
An Indonesian Sriwijaya Air plane with 62 people on board had crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta on Saturday, Transport Minister Budi Karya had confirmed to Reuters. The Boeing 737-500 crashed near Laki Island, about 12 km from the airport. The plane, which had departed for Pontianak in West Kalimantan, disappeared from the radar after taking off just after 2.30 pm.
The transport ministry said, citing the country’s military chief Hadi Tjahjanto, that a military vessel “found the signal from (Sriwijaya Air) SJ182” and divers had recovered parts of the plane from around 23 metres below the water’s surface.
Earlier in the day, the rescuers had pulled out body parts and debris from the wreckage of the plane. “As of this [Sunday] morning, we’ve received two [body] bags, one with…